Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1887-12-14
MERE-MENTION.


Herr Most, the convicted New York
Anarchist, was sentenced on Thursday to
one years imprisonment, but was after
wards granted a stay of proceedings, pend
ing. his motion for a new trial.
cording to the report of Treasurer Hyatt,
there is still outstanding $l5,322, 902 of the
which is supposed to have been destroyed,
lost or placed in collections. '.'Statistics
in the office of the United States collector
of customs at Ell Paso, Texas, give the i'm
portation of silver ore from Mexico to
that point last month as 6,762 tons, valued
at s340,1 35. This is an average OF more
than 225 tons per day."The negro
residents of St. Paul have organized for the
advancement of the interests of their race
in Minnesota, the securing of civil rights,
etc."".".'The Rev. J. S. A. Hunter and
his wife, of Orlando, Ark, have accepted
the appointment of the Associate Reform
ed Presbyterian Synod to a mission in
Mexico. ".Parts of Iowa have been
flooded with counterfeit dollars made of
cast iron heavily plated with silver. Or
binary acids fail to affect them and they
can only be detected by their ring.f
caucus of Democratic members of the gen.
eral Assembly of Virginia has nominated
by reclamation the Hon: John S. Barbour
for election as United States Senator to
succeed Senator Riddleberger, whose term
will expire March 4, 1889. are
5000 men, approximately, in the army
Of the United States, and it required last
wear to keep this little force in order,
$40 general and 9,496 inferior trials by
court-martial. "In Washington last
Thursday the Republican National Com
mittee selected Chicago as the place and
June 10 as the date of the Republican Ma
tional Convention "''""Business failures
occurring throughout the country during
the last week number for the United States
226, Canada %. Total, 253 failures against
24 the previous week.""The total i'm
migration into the United States for the
current year will reach 500, 1000, a gain of
264, 900 over that of last year.
State Auditor of North Carolina has mail
ed pension warrants to those in that State
adiudged entitled to receive them under
the law passed at the last session OF the
Legislature granting pensions to Coined
crate soldiers. There are l,Oo6 soldiers
and 2,469 widows of soldiers to whom war
rants were issued. 'John y. Snyder,
the strangely afflicted Indiana farmer, who
had a disease which has kept him walking
day and night three years, ended his tramp
OF y ,UUU LILIES Ou NlOludy Va iooo ~ W
dying peacefully. 'Christian Denning,
a Chicago Anarchist, has been driven to
suicide by grief for his executed fel-
lows..".""The ring leaders of the famous
Booking gang of thieves and train robbers,
operating 176 miles from Fort Worth,
Texas, have been captured.
"A remarkable case is reported from
Laurens county. Several weeks ago Mrs.
Clark, wife of w. H. Clark, a Methodist
preacher on Tumbling Shoals circuit, was
kicked by a horse. Her injuries were Sc
we're and painful but not serious, and after
being confined to bed for ONE weeks she
was able to get up and walk around. On
Tuesday, however, she experienced a sud-
den change and new symptoms appeared:
She went to sleep that day and slept
soundly through the night. In the morn
ing she failed to awake and her. slumber
continued long into the day, when the
family became alarmed. Three physicians
were called in, but they could do nothing
to arouse the woman from her heavy re-
pose. She slept on for more than twenty
four hours and at last died without aWak-
ening. The case has aroused much won
der in the community and the doctors are
unable to explain it.